Me and My Valentines

Since I have been complaining a lot lately about being stuck at home with my crazy kids and my pesky hubby, I thought, since it IS Valentine's Day, I decided not to complain at all. So, my Valentine's gift to my hubby is no "you won't believe what my husband did" posts today! Yeah, I don't think he appreciated my last few posts.

So I will instead share photos from yesterday's snow day of me and my most absolute favorite valentines of all time!

Tina Wina, who played outside for FIVE straight hours yesterday:


Kallie Wallie, my little princess:

Daddy and HIS little princess:



And me and my SWEETEST sweetie, Caroline:



Anyway, yesterday was our second snow day. It was actually a much nicer snow day than usual. Everyone was busy and there was minimal fighting. I got out to the Y for a nice, unhurried workout. Christina and her Daddy got lots of fresh air. It was a great day afterall!

Today, school is back in session! And the skies were sunny, yet cold. Christina was SO excited to be back to school. Today they have a field trip to see "Alice in Wonderland" at our local theater.

And the day started out on such a sweet note.

When Christina was getting ready for school, and I was fixing her hair, she said:

"Mom, today is Valentine's Day".

"Yes it is." I said sort of off-handedly.

"Mom, I love you SO much."

And my heart melted.

On a related note, I am reading a very good book right now. It is "In an Instant". It is the story of journalist Bob Woodruff, his wife and his 4 kids. He almost died from a extremely serious head injury while reporting in Iraq. And this book is about his career, his recovery and his relationship with wife both before and after the accident. I highly recommend it.

Bob was in a coma for 5 weeks, when he woke, although doing quite well considering, he still had significant issues which required months and years of treatment and therapy. About 3 months after the initial accident, while he was still hospitalized, his wife Lee was sitting with him, watching him sleep. She had no idea now much he would recover from this accident. She didn't know if he would ever be even close to the same as he was before. And she got an overwhelming ache to just lay with him and hold him and go back to those lost days. She wrote:

"I remembered all those times as a wife when I'd been too tired, when the thought of conjugal duty had felt like just that. I would have bartered years off my life, forgone untold luxuries, traded fingers and toes like coins to steal some of those nights back. We'd squandered all that time together, I thought now in retrospect, it was as though we'd used up precious oxygen in a room we'd never known was airtight."

That paragraph really hit me. It is such a true remark about our time with ALL of our valentines. Our time IS limited, it is going to end, no one knows when. Don't waste a second! Be happy! Have fun!!!!

Happy Valentine's Day,